Insight Quotes

906 Insight quotes by 705 unique authors

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight. — Mary Everest Boole
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your… — Samuel Warren Carey
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often… — Gay Hendricks
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Unknown Author
What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ? — Jim Elliot
If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data… — Thomas Carlyle
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down… — Suzanne Cory
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches. — Densey Clyne
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like… — Densey Clyne
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to… — Tony Snow
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the… — Leon Uris
The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I… — Emma Watson
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not… — Edward Steichen
If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes… — Yousuf Karsh
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. — Unknown Author
The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because… — John Amos Comenius
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite. — Robert Frost
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. — Carly Fiorina

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